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the world's focus to the country's people poor human rights record. it's three pm here in moscow and you live with us on our t.v. with me to have on with say it has been a traumatic a few days for the u.s. city of boston to terror blast that struck at its landmark marathon on monday killing three including a child and injuring many more and hundreds the attacker was followed by an intensive manhunt for two suspects through the city suburbs and eventually saw one of the alleged bombers killed and the other wounded and taken into custody artie's an associate should can i looks back at the bit to events. mayhem took place here at an area still cordoned off at a sporting event that attracted tens of thousands of participants and thousands of
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spectators from all over the world two bombs went off just seconds apart from each other at the finish line of the boston marathon the explosions were so strong. even three people over a hundred and seventy five injured despite all of the money the united states spends on security it was a surveillance camera of a department store that helped pinpoint the two brothers behind the tragedy several memorials like this one have been set up throughout the city of boston to remember the victims the three people who died including an eight year old boy two young women a twenty nine and twenty three year old over a dozen victims remained in critical condition for several days many of them needing follow up surgeries despite having between the two suspects lived in an apartment on the third floor of this building in cam bridge now they came to the united states the two brothers of chechen origin back in two thousand and two the younger brother joe hart became a naturalized citizen on september eleventh last year the older brother had
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a green card dreamt of joining the united states olympics boxing team to get a passport all of the people who knew them were shocked to find out that they're the suspects in the bombings but law enforcement officials are saying that they had indications from the russian government to look into the identity of the older brother to milan they did in fact bring him in for questioning back in two thousand and eleven to try to establish any possible links to extremist groups at this time they released the older brother and of course now following the days after the bombings at the finishing line of the boston marathon law enforcement yet again tried to establish any possible links the brothers might have had with extremist groups after monday's bombings late on thursday afternoon the f.b.i. finally released photos of the two suspects the ended up coming out of their. fighting killing an mit officer hijacking a car releasing the person to whom that car belonged and got in a car chase with police the police officer said that the two brothers were throwing
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explosive devices out of their car and shooting over a dozen police officers were wounded as a result eventually the older brother twenty six year old to milan got out of the car to continue the shootout with the police officers the younger brother stayed in the car ended up running for his older brother getting a win the car which he eventually abandoned and was able to get away on foot in the meantime police officers captured to marilyn and took him to this hospital in boston suffering multiple injuries this is where he died shortly after one thirty am on friday morning and then president a manhunt for joe hart continued for over twenty hours involving thousands and thousands of federal and local law enforcement officers were currently in watertown just several minutes outside of boston now law enforcement officials have established a perimeter in this area going from door to door trying to locate just cars
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whereabouts where they ended up with finding him was just a block away from the area they were searching he was hiding out in one of the houses in this area in a dry docked boat a local neighbor in the person living in this area saw a blood trail and led police to the area where just car was hiding now a helicopter off the officials was also able using heat signature technology to locate joe hart hiding out in this boat even though he was covering himself up now it's important to note that a two hour standoff and shootout between police and the heart continued eventually we know that there was negotiating attempts because the officials were very interested in getting him alive eventually they were able to arrest him take him into custody following his arrest or higher was taken to. same hospital where his brother died also suffering severe injuries he's undergoing medical treatment under
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heavy security and officials are saying that the legal proceedings against him will begin as soon as he's able to communicate after a week filled with tragedy shock fear and a mass lockdown the city of boston has breathed out a sigh of relief that locals want to see justice and find out the motives behind the terror rocks that made so many question the illusion of safety they have been living under mr marty massachusetts. u.s. authorities are reportedly checking whether the brothers could have any links or to russia's most wanted men due to omar off while the parents of the suspected bombers are say this is a complete nonsense and believe american security services framed this son's you went to the north caucasus city where the brother's family lives to find of more on their background. that middle and sad and naive and amateur of boxer who dreamt of representing his adopted country the united states he claimed to have no american friends but married a local woman katherine and they shared
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a daughter by contrast his younger brother john had a period well adjusted popular in high school and even won a college scholarship yet sadly they were revealed as the main suspects in the boston marathon bombings their father was the first to step up to claim his two boys who are set up i'm confident in my children's innocence and i'm not sure what have thought that only god knows no one in the household ever owned any weapons i think my children may have been framed their mothers to be duds shared her biggest suspicion telling r.c. their her family was under constant advice or valence raising the question why her sons were not stopped if they were supposedly planning terrorists and not how nobody talked about the caribbean my son permit or got involved in the early years ago he was called by a b i like fly by he knew that they knew
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what my doing. what action and what. we were going to how could that happen how could they were conjoined we. never ever heard this is not my sons are in front absolutely chechen that same night family first moved from kyrgyzstan to dagestan a republican russia's north caucasus this is the house where the brothers' parents live but now there is no one here it's not a nice family i voicing any contact with the media neighbors here are in deep shock at the news in does believe that any of this happening to the south and i have family i know the brothers very well from the childhood we used to live in chechnya together i was the neighbor. then we moved here i know they couldn't have carried out the attack and they couldn't have been involved in it they spent most of their lives in the us studied the works that they didn't have any links with the
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hobbyists and other militants the youngest brother jihad on his space have the social network spent back to mansion at this school number one in my high school and none of those places where he used to study however here are very few people remember that saddam lives brothers. the family came to dug a stunt in september two thousand and one with the boys from the old style school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave doc a stone they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up. in search of a new law and an new one bishan yes indeed after a decade in the us the heart became an american citizen last year but in that time something or someone made the top of my brother's seemingly turned against the nation which gave them asylum and wish they'd spent the most significant part of their lives by jenna bush no artsy reporting from brushes that astound republic.
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for more analysis on the story i'm joined live by law professor alexander dahmer and a professor how could two of the suspected young brothers could have been able to carry out a terror attack in a country that poses so much money into national security. you know i think that this is just a reproduction of terrorism and it doesn't matter what happens in russia or in america i think about it was a very symbolic attack as symbolic as an attack on the world trade center or nine eleven and you're barbarians came to america and they attacked boston is the cradle of modern american civilization. the parents say that to claim this sons was set up by the f.b.i. is it just an attempt to cover up for their children all is them all to this story . this is absolutely ridiculous i remember i wrote about it back in two thousand and two when chechen terrorists had the terrible terrible
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scene at their hostage attack in moscow to selves and to and they remember how old almost i'm on the who at that time was their representative of the church so-called church and government where in america when he was saying but this is a provocation this is not interdiction of chechen people would don't do this kind of things this is b.s. . so then i guess the alleged suspects they've been checked for alleged links to the chechen terrorists as you just said what possible reason could chechen chechens have to talk at the u.s. . well i think that this is the same reason why you away had so many problems with the same individuals who were the same type of people here in russia for so many years. again this is a reproduction of more than terrorism american civilization is as that the same threats for for them as the same enemy as the russians. and for so many years when
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i was teaching in america i have told the town the eleven american universities so far. i was so ashamed of american government which will sail in this story as to their own people about russian imperialists who are fighting against. freedom fighters from chechnya now this freedom fighters from chechnya as they started getting political asylum in the united states they start coming to america to be prepared. just want to come back to to this wall on terror that america it's been a costly wall and like you unique in regenerated right now that it's now not only america's war but it's everybody's will so why did they get it wrong how do they keep getting it wrong when they put so much money in the so-called war on terror but yet this still bombings happening in the house at home. well on the bright side of life. we didn't see any major. terror attacks on america between nine eleven and boston so at least to some extent to those
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who could be justified of course billions of dollars were invested into the security of american civilization and american society but if there was two individuals if they're not a part of some network and you know as a lawyer at this moment i don't have enough information to claim that they're a part of the chechen terrorist network or al qaeda terrorist network if those two individuals are just the volunteers you know it's pretty pretty common for for young. people especially from that part of the region of them nothing could could prevent with kind of attack i'm so pleased that they were a bit hampered epper handed so soon at least and with respect of the american security services so we are ready to find them soon and to prevent or prevent more crimes. professor alexander tom randi thank you for your thoughts and insights. on this story. and on the wave of fear and frustration after the
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deadly bombings in boston the highly controversial cyber security bill finally gets the ok only with house of representatives shortly we're report on how the new ball could be used in the war on terror and why it's caused an outcry in america. on top of the tragedy in boston this week also saw the u.s. hits with the one of its the worst industrial disasters in decades leaving fifteen dead more than one hundred injured and dozens still missing and explosion add a texas fertilizer plant was so paul full it registered as a mad quake and could be heard more than one hundred kilometers away. but going to the right i think there is a little bit here the resulting explosion wiped out entire neighborhoods of the
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small town of west entire blocks of houses and apartments were mangled by the blast wave as well as a nearby retirement home and school and they needed off to mother and notions funes a hung heavy over the area while the fires could be seen burning for miles around a spokesman for the texan department of public safety described what he witnessed. i could tell you i was there i walked through the blast area are searching houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same corona exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. right and four days on of the flames are and i'll get to there are reports that the ruptured chemical tanks at the plant and the leaking toxins and sparking a small fire is the area's also been quarantined with locals really relocated while
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rescue search for missing people under the debris is also more is that of the may be well may have been serious safety shuffles at the plant that's encouraged by decades of negligence by inspectors investigative journalist david lindorff says many other u.s. communities may also be at risk over and over companies get cited for not having these risk plans in place and they get a small fine and then they don't do anything you know the the maybe go through the motions of having the risk plan but the reality is. it makes absolutely no sense to even have a plant like this in a town but all over especially in the west where you've got fertilizer plants oil refineries and so on they're right in the middle of these small towns with houses all around them and schools and nursing homes and the problem is that in the united states the entire regulatory apparatus that oversees these kinds of safety issues
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has been captured by industry by corporations through their control of the politicians through their campaign contributions it's really not a lesson for the authorities it's a lesson for the american people that we've allowed our country to be taken over by corporate interests. i would miss the council stories from days end to the max but common to all available at our dot com you can also watch more videos of the off to mouth of the blogs and find out what the danger is now and in a few minutes we talk to the world's top a whistleblower why do we keep weeks added to jim a massage about his meeting with the plane's main opposition figure stay with us. sigrid laboratory here mukherjee was able to build the needs most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give
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welcome back you're watching our. controversial film you know one race is set to start as planned on sunday despite protests from the opposition desperate to try. to draw attention to human rights abuses in the gulf kingdom tens of thousands of people have been venting their anger saying the monarchy is using the event to paper over the crackdown on program form activists the phrase a protest movement has been accusing the government of violating streatham of speech values opposition leader is the most prominent a figure to stay in prison as many believe he was thrown behind bars just for tweeting against the rulers are his party boy reports now on his struggle. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian a saunders so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks
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founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chance about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking the fans why he was so keen to invite me to be over a job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show braid has nine hundred thousand people and has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers cards predominantly all the population of earth. sincere receive a number of other activists in the brain screen. but never were just. trying to present to the brains to write what's the most prominent voice for the brain it's pretty speaking to julian assange to be over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed you did just. because you
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want your. difficulties and you know that the changes that you are fighting for it's being good four hundred years is not an easy thing to change to achieve those changes you have to be willing. and my that's price might be utilized for a newbie over a job that price has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to our son keeping him in prison under current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government. cartoonish form of this because it was on the same standard criticizing. it's hard for the people with that much coverage because. you can't be cowards so i think it's long term prospects the court could amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses
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in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom anytime soon boyko r t london's ecuadorian embassy. says hand of pigs assessor is now officially at the head of the world's most all rich nation having been inaugurated as the president of venezuela but they go it was far from smith's will make an asthma duo a seven protesters killed in clashes with police there thousands of supporters of opposition candidate and reka p.l.s. took to the streets around the country demanding a total votes recounted nice and national guard units responded with tear gas and plastic bullets and the country's atop a little body did finally agree to a partial order but cautioned that majoris victory is irreversible dr william robinson professor of sociology at the universe of california says there may be an ongoing effort to destabilize the situation. this is not a new tactic on the part of washington another talk to the owner none of which are
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to go on the board of the new things well the opposition and generally the far right to work in america which along to washington the idea is you have an all out to students and this civilization campaign this is simply another tactic within that there's been diplomatic isolation economic side which our military activity. time to put it in two thousand and two the massive us financing for the internal opposition including for property they say and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when this election which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of the government in this case then the do it all chavez with little governments around an election it will launch violence and trying to create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the results and this is really at least of this is an incredible the proper scene on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive full because mexico's a close ally of the united states it's the u.s. immediately recognizes the results and ignores the charges by opposition that therefore there is such as no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to
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sort of them elections. the u.s. house of representatives has passed the controversial cyber information sharing and protection act isn't to fight terrorism in the digital world the legislation also sparked a massive crime that it's a v.a.d. jeopardizes people's privacy to enjoy blake explains. for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation for sharing and protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does not the authors of cispa they say that this bill will lead to business is private companies google facebook and any internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb cyber attacks aimed at the united states computer critics say it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that
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the right safeguards are there so in turn people would be separate pricing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill was introduced back in february i believe one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the authors of the bill he said you know we can't have another nine eleven we can't have another terrorist attack it but if we do we will pass any law that needs to happen sure enough just another congressman who actually got up and said well look what happened in boston these were bombs sure they weren't digital bombs but the next ones will be digital bombs so we need to come together for the sake of national security and do something and that's exactly why a lot of people have problems with this bill because the people who are touting it the people who are writing it are people that don't really understand the cyber security concerns and there's a lot of concern over who is coming up with this bill who is supporting it saying that you know boston would be reason enough to pass a cyber security bill is laughable to many people. now some international news in brief are the number of deaths from the devastating earthquake in which chinese province of sichuan has
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a now reached two hundred and three you with eleven thousand five hundred people injured the five magnitude aftershocks reported on sunday morning create additional difficulties for rescuers and providing supplies into the region is hampered by damage roads and traffic jams the six point six magnitude quake struck on saturday morning in two thousand and eight an earthquake in the same province killed almost seventy thousand people visiting a hold upon the. taliban insurgents have killed six police officers in an attack on a checkpoint in eastern afghanistan the incident took place in central gaza in a district where the officers were asleep with reports that the militants may have received help from an insider earlier this week the taliban attacked another checkpoint in the region killing thirteen officers. a mess of first of all celebrating the legalization of marijuana in the american state of colorado gave way to panic following
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a shooting of the two people the strange non-critical wounds denver police were on scene immediately but have made no arrests up to eighty thousand people attended the event with the state of colorado joining washington to become the first to legalize marianna. and i'm all mentality takes a look at the movie booming gold rush in colombia. i reckon cardiologist dr omar al claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr ocoee see puts to data that the number of pressed cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen
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to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukaemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasion of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poison of substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yet you know saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly present so where the divisions of iraq are good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be
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doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion. choose your language. make up with. a still some of. the consensus get to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that imply. truth be access to your office.

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